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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Not quite
related to igov. However, forwarded for those who work with / know those
working on ict for the visually challenged <br>
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<tr><td><b>Date: </b></td><td>26 September 2014 12:26:32 pm</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Subject: </b></td><td>[india-gii] communicator for a
deaf-mute low vision person</td></tr>
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<p dir="ltr">At the Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Deaf-Blind in
Mumbai, there is a trainer who has been deaf since birth and does not
speak, and also has been progressively losing vision. For my project
seeking to bring smart phones into the lives of the deaf-blind, I could
only communicate with him through sign-language interpretation. The need he
immediately identified, was that he had immense difficulty communicating
with most of the people around him, who did not know sign language.
Spelling the word on the palm letter by letter also doesn't work too
well in the local script, which is Devanagari.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I therefore wrote the free Android app dbtype to address his
pressing communication need, indeed also mine, since I am just a beginner
in signing. Even if the app is not useful for you, I would be grateful for
suggestions on how it might be improved. It's simple:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Press the Say button to activate speech to text, which records
till you pause, converts to text and displays in a text box using a large
font size. Press Pick to select from the stored sentences to add to the
contents of the text box, or to clear it. Press Say to convert this text to
speech which can be heard through the speakers of the device.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If the text box only contains the word "settings"
(all small, no quotes), a new screen opens in which you can edit the stored
sentences, and change the font size. Press the Save button to save your
changes and return you to the main screen. The hope is that this can all be
done by a low-vision person.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are no advertisements or data collection in this app.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can download the app from<a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype">https</a><a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype">://</a><a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype">play.google.com</a><a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype">/store/apps/details?</a><a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype">id</a><a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype">=</a><a
href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype">appinventor.ai_arun_mehta.dbtype</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">A video is at <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DyfzxVWA2E">www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DyfzxVWA2E</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">warmly,<br>
Arun</p>
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